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In Fanfrolico and After Jack Lindsay discusses the historical novels he began to write in the mid 1930s. 'I still, however, could not handl...

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This paper presents a compelling analysis of Jack Lindsay's historical novel *1649*, arguing that its recourse to the mid-seventeenth century English...

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Michael Wilding

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This submission presents significant challenges for review due to its extremely minimalist nature. Both the title and the abstract are simply "Bibliog...

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Michael Wilding

Weird Melancholy: the stories of Marcus Clarke

Literature

When Hamilton Mackinnon collected Clarke's stories in The Austral Edition nf the Selected Works nf Marcus Clarke (1890),1 he placed as the...

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This paper promises a compelling re-evaluation of Marcus Clarke's short fiction, particularly through the lens of its initial editorial presentation....

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Michael Wilding

William Lane's The Workingmen s Paradise: Pioneering Socialist Realism

Literature

For their part in the I 891 shearers' strike, some eighty to one hundred unionists were convicted in Queensland with sentences ranging fro...

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This paper presents an intriguing analysis of William Lane's *The Workingman's Paradise*, positioning it as a foundational text for "pioneering social...

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Michael Wilding

Joseph Furphy's Such Is Life

Literature

Joseph Furphy's Sltch is Life (1903) opens simply and clearly enough with that memorable, sardonic initial declaration: 'Unemployed at last...

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This paper offers a focused and compelling analysis of the opening of Joseph Furphy's *Such Is Life*, centering on the profound implications of its in...

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Lynette Olson

Religious Change, Conversion and Culture

Religion

This book publishes the papers from a conference which grew out of an undergraduate course … the indigenisation of Christianity [was] seen...

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This volume, "Religious Change, Conversion and Culture," presents a collection of papers originating from a conference held in April 1994, which itsel...

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Myer Samra

Buallawn Israel: The Emergence of a Judaising Movement in Mizoram, Northeast India

Anthropology

During the past forty years, a Judaising movement has taken root among the Chikim in Mizoram, Manipur, and the Chin State of North Burma. T...

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This paper introduces a fascinating and complex case study of religious emergence and transformation in Northeast India and North Burma, focusing on t...

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G. A. Oddie

Old Wine in New Bottles? Kartabhaja (Vaishnava) Converts to Evangelical Christianity in Bengal, 1835–1845

Religion

Of special relevance in what follows are three of [anthropologist Robin] Horton's more general and interrelated points - ideas and assumpti...

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This paper, titled "Old Wine in New Bottles? Kartabhaja (Vaishnava) Converts to Evangelical Christianity in Bengal, 1835–1845," promises a focused and...

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Lynette Olson

The Conversion of the Visigoths and Bulgarians Compared

History

This paper is written to bring out various themes relevant to the subject of this book. It is not the first time such a comparison has been...

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This paper proposes an intriguing comparative study of the conversions of the Visigoths and Bulgarians, a topic with significant implications for unde...

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Wojciech Dabrowski

Not by Word Alone: Cross-cultural Communication between Highlanders and Missionaries (SVD) in the Jimi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea

Anthropology

Is communication (especially of complex religious ideas!) between peoples of different cultures possible and if it is, then under what cond...

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This paper promises a timely and critically engaged examination of cross-cultural communication, particularly concerning the transmission of complex r...